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...actually begun voicing his worries about high stock prices years before. Fed Chairman Greenspan got an earful from the economist a few days before making his "irrational exuberance" speech in 1996 suggesting the market was overvalued. But prices kept rising, and Greenspan concluded that he shouldn't try to outguess the market. Other economists have since shown that acting on Shiller's bearish advice then would have cost an investor big gains over the subsequent decade. One man was no match for the bull's momentum...
...simplest reason is that the show is built for suspense, and those who watch each week do so because they can be secure in the knowledge that they're not trying to outguess some over-appreciated TV writer with clichés for brains - this stuff unfolds like a live-on-tape sporting event (unless you believe the lawsuits) and all CBS can do is edit it to look like fictional television. Which it does very skillfully, even when there's no action whatsoever to work with...
...slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE, and the "toast" that emerges five long minutes later is pale yellow. Exactly! The recalcitrant toaster must not die. It's this very duel of wits between man and machine, the struggle to outguess the little bastard's endless treacheries, that snaps the dozing mind awake every morning, sharpening it for the challenges of the day ahead...
...outguess science? Movie moguls hope so, for there are two pricey epics hurtling toward theaters, both about huge chunks of astral matter on a collision course with Earth. There hasn't been such potentially profitable synergy between Hollywood and scare headlines since--well, since Primary Colors...
...debate is all the more vexing because it involves trying to outguess Mother Nature -- a futile endeavor, as evidenced by the wild unlikelihood of devastating rain in July, which nonetheless happened. The consistent pattern of late 20th century flooding in the U.S. has been a decline in deaths proportionate to the area inundated, but a startling rise in property damage, due to increased building and farming on the floodplains and inflation in dollar values. Beyond that, all is as uncertain as the exact height of the flood crest and the precise time it will pass St. Louis. A 1955 book...